Posted on 04/03/2017 11:00:21 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Several major mainstream newspapers have published editorials encouraging President Trump's Supreme Court pick, Judge Neil Gorsuch, to be confirmed while criticizing Senate Democrats' efforts to filibuster his nomination.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) is trying to rally 40 Democrats to join him in voting no on a cloture vote to prevent Gorsuch from getting an up-or-down vote for confirmation. Red-state Democratic Sens. Claire McCaskill (D., Mo.) and Jon Tester (D., Mont.) have announced they will try to block Gorsuch, a constitutional originalist who the American Bar Association rated "well qualified" for the high court.
Still, Senate Republicans are confident, saying they will invoke the so-called "nuclear option" to stop a filibuster and allow Gorsuch's confirmation vote to go before the full Senate. There, he is essentially guaranteed to be confirmed with Republicans holding the majority.
USA Today wrote in favor of Gorsuch's confirmation on Sunday. Despite the judge being too far to the right on some issues for the newspaper's taste, it said he was within the mainstream and possessed "impeccable" credentials. The national newspaper also praised Gorsuch's consistent rulings on religious freedom for both businesses and individuals.
The left-leaning New York Daily News published an editorial endorsing Gorsuch that called him a "rigorous judicial practitioner with respect for the legislative process and for precedent." Like USA Today, the piece scolded Republicans for not granting a hearing in 2016 to former President Obama's nominee, Merrick Garland, to fill the late Justice Antonin Scalia's seat.
The Miami Herald came out with an editorial on Feb. 2 admonishing Democrats to not filibuster, praising Gorsuch as a "fine selection" for his background and independence. The Dallas Morning News, San Antonio Express-News, and Tulsa World also penned editorials stating Democrats should not filibuster Gorsuch.
Columns in The Daily Beast, Bloomberg, The Week, The Hill, Cleveland Plain-Dealer, The Tennessean, and Sarasota Herald-Tribune have made the same case.
Four Democrats thus far have announced they will not filibuster the judge. If four more join their ranks, then the filibuster attempt will fail because the 60 vote-threshold for cloture will be met.
The Chicago Tribune praised Gorsuch in its editorial for showing his critics that he will follow the law. The Illinois-based paper took its own representative to task, Sen. Dick Durbin (D., Ill.), for his attempt to trap Gorsuch over one of his rulings about a truck driver who drove away from his load on a dangerously cold night:
Gorsuch then schooled Durbin: "My job is to apply the law as written. The law said he would be protected if he refused to operate. By any plain understanding, he operated the vehicle. And if Congress wishes to revise the law–I wrote this: I said it was an unkind decision, it might have been a wrong decision, a bad decision, but my job isn't to write the law, senator, it's to apply the law. And if Congress passes a law saying a trucker in those circumstances gets to choose how to operate his vehicle, I will be the first in line to enforce it."
Durbin has joined the Democratic filibuster attempt, but the editorial concluded Gorsuch should be confirmed.
Not all newspapers, of course, are on board, mainly because of Republicans in 2016 not holding a hearing for Garland. The day of Gorsuch's nomination, the New York Times lamented the "very conservative" Gorsuch potentially taking the "stolen seat" of Garland.
On the first day of Gorsuch's widely praised confirmation hearings, the New York Times said an attempted filibuster by Democrats would be "an understandable reaction."
It makes the Democrats look petty and adolescent..........Oh, wait......They ARE petty and adolescent....................
USA Today wrote in favor of Gorsuch’s confirmation on Sunday.
The left-leaning New York Daily News published an editorial endorsing Gorsuch.
The Miami Herald came out with an editorial on Feb. 2 admonishing Democrats to not filibuster.
Columns in The Daily Beast, Bloomberg, The Week, The Hill, Cleveland Plain-Dealer, The Tennessean, and Sarasota Herald-Tribune have made the same case.
Does everyone see what all that cooperation and comity on the part of Hatch, McCain, Graham, Corker, et al, that always vote for whoever the Democrats nominate has bought them?
Nothing.
They are too dumb to see it though.
The New Fake Times is just pissed at Gorsuch because he refused to vow allegiance to Satan.
The New Fake Times editorial board does Spirit Cooking at pedophilia Pizza shops.
The one thing I’ll give McConnell credit for, is standing his ground when it came to Garland.
If he has to and does use the nuclear option here, I’ll be grateful for that as well.
Gorsuch was described favorably here, and it makes so much sense to make sure this man is seated on the SCOTUS.
McConnell probably saved us from a Leftist court, and Trump will go the rest of the way as he replaces more justices there.
After Trump, I want the SCOTUS to be on solid footing for the next three decades, at least.
Dems are disgusting. Gorsuch is a thoroughly decent person. They make me sick.
Thank you, Democrats, for your being willing to be so clearly identified as rejecting a person whose record and promises indicated a fidelity to that Constitution's protections, as intended by its framers and those who ratified it.
Reid already went nuclear so Obama could pack the lower courts with godless liberals. They want McConnell to make a “deal” so that they could filibuster in the future. NO DEAL!
It is delightful to watch the democrats under Schumer slowly killing their chances in 2018. Little by little they are aggrevating that portion of their voter base that is somewhat normal, that meaning not screaming radicals.
May even they are better at math and understand the next Supreme Court nominee will also be someone who has been confirmed before or is highly qualified and fighting to keep the status quo of the current time makeup is more important.
I predict Gorsuch is confirmed without simple majority.
The next nominee will face an onslaught of charges, mostly contrived innuendo.
But, where the Dems are looking to gain traction will be the simple majority vote for confirmation.
They will attack “51 and done” as ancient, arcane, etc.
They will attack “51 and done” as unparalleled and unconscionable precedent that is “very dangerous” to our democracy.
They will attack “51 and done” as never before precedent.
Our answer should be “And your point is? Which rhetorical”. We then vote and move on to the next issue.
What the whining Dems are revealing is how we should spend our campaign donations in 2018. People like Testor, Nelson and McCaskill will have very well funded opponents in 2018. I will do my part.
To invoke the so-called nuclear option will require the Republicans to change the rules. It is being reported that ultra-liberal RINO Susan Collins of Maine will either vote against the nuclear option or against Gorsuch or both. If she plus another RINO like Senator Liza Murkowski sabotage this nomination, there should be some censure from the Senate Republicans for their despicable decision.
That is two, and Pence can come in to break the tie.
Hmmmm, when the rat papers endorse, I am concerned.
If they won’t allow him to be confirmed without the nuclear option, they won’t allow any nominee Trump makes. Therefore: Nuclear Option.
And it means that any other position he must fill can also be confirmed by a simple majority.
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